Archaeological discoveries in the Arabian-Persian Gulf challenge traditional Islamic history. They reveal that Christian ...

Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is not, ...

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in ...

Titus 3:3-5 Once again the Catholic Church ... Throughout history, the Church found Herself among cultures practicing slavery and had to deal with it. An early example is St. Paul’s Epistle ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of Greek origin.

Pope Francis prays during a Eucharistic celebration in the Vatican, on the final day of a summit on sexual abuse in the Catholic ... By the early 2000s, sexual abuse within the Church was a ...

it should be in the library of every priest and seminarian and, of course, in Catholic libraries ... stewards his readers through 1,600 years of history in just 366 pages.' Matthew S. C. Olver, The ...

This involved a recognition of the "newness" of the new age of salvation history brought about by the ... themselves and from the practice of the early Church. 3. On a more juridical level, the ...